Hi! >>>>> "Henrik" == Henrik Ingo <henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi> writes:
Henrik> Hi all Henrik> As Monty blogged some time ago Henrik> http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/08/thoughts-about-dual-licensing-open.html Henrik> ...we want to add a promise to our MariaDB contributors signing the Henrik> MCA, that we will not use their contributions to restrict other Henrik> licensees ability to contribute to Open Source. Henrik> This text has now been approved by a lawyer. The question is, is it Henrik> understandable? Henrik> ********************************** Henrik> Additional promise to contributions under the Monty Program Contributor Henrik> Agreement Henrik> Monty Program Ab promises to each contributor assigning rights under the Monty Henrik> Program Ab Contributor Agreement, that when licensing 'products' (software), Henrik> that include a contribution, to other 3rd parties, the license will be either Henrik> i) an Open Source license (www.opensource.org), or Henrik> ii) another license, in which case: Henrik> * the other license will NOT restrict the licensee from making his own Henrik> modifications to the product, including adding other suitably licensed code or Henrik> other 'materials' from other sources (such as code available under suitable Henrik> Open Source licenses) Henrik> * the license will NOT restrict the licensee from publishing his own code or Henrik> other 'materials' including, but not limited to, under an Open Source license. Henrik> As a special note, it is observed that the Monty Program Ab Contributor Henrik> Agreement itself fulfills these requirements. Also note that this promise Henrik> does not not extend as a requirement to 3rd parties so as to restrict Henrik> their rights to license products containing contributions. What is the state with the above ? I still think it's quite long and not much easier to understand that what we have now: "Monty Program Ab agrees that when it dual licenses code, it will not restrict the way the third party licensee uses the licensed copy of the code nor restrict how they use their own code. " Regards, Monty _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
